Total Votes Cast

Year	Total Votes Cast
23 Feb 1950	45,944
25 Oct 1951	46,025
26 May 1955	44,564
08 Oct 1959	45,322
15 Oct 1964	46,364
31 Mar 1966	47,177
04 Dec 1969	41,468
18 Jun 1970	52,566
28 Feb 1974	71,874
10 Oct 1974	67,898
03 May 1979	72,334
09 Jun 1983	52,596
11 Jun 1987	55,053
09 Apr 1992	60,502
01 May 1997	56,289
07 Jun 2001	51,006
05 May 2005	53,005
06 May 2010	51,661
07 May 2015	50,430

Date:	Source:
1950 - 1970	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 (Chichester: Political Reference Publications, 1971) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
1974 - 1992	Kimber, Political Science Resources
1997 - 2015	House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Research Papers ,
2010	The Electoral Commission, The Electoral Commission

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